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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Well, her front side, at least; She'll need rotations to be usable in scenes or else she'll constantly be staring at the screen.

She is capable of showing happiness, sadness, anger, and...crying. Yes, crying; You didn't hear that incorrectly. The picture to the left shows her face when she's crying. Her mouth constantly distorts and looks overall messed up and (although not shown here) tears fly out of her eyes!

Normally, her eyes are covered up by her hands, but here, she's seen crying without them. Just be glad you don't have to hear her cry.

The thing is, I can't do Kitty's voice anymore. Her voice is too high-pitched for me now, so her voice has to be sped up manually.

One thing worries me about her, though, and that's her crying; If you don't realize, I have to make that noise! How am I going to sound? I hope it's not too unbearable; If you want to hear what Kitty's crying sounded like, watch this video around 26:40.

To hear her oddly-similar-to-Kitty voice, check this out, though I may update it to make it sound more like the Little Girl's slightly different voice:

Here's more pictures of her and her (unfinished) cup! The cup's based on the Pink Alien's cup (which I will show you eventually). The difference between them right now is that the little girl's cup has a normal lid and is lighter in color, while the Pink Alien's has a dome lid and is a darker pink color.

Also, one of the pictures shows her making that face she always makes when drinking out of strawed cups. If you haven't realized already, she closes her eyes halfway and makes an "O"-shaped mouth slightly to the right side of her face. She keeps this face until she lets go of the straw.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Do you remember this girl? She started off as an idea came true with only a head and flowery dress, though, since then, that's changed.

In fact, since last time, this cutie has got additional detail! Do you see it? If you noticed the slight blush on her cheeks or the lines in her hair, you know how to look for detail. She also has gotten ears, though they are only circles on the sides of her face for now.

Also, her hands now have another...bad gesture that can be used if this girl is mad, making the total hand positions to 4: opened, closed, pointing, and the finger.

Her mouth has also been modified, adding extra mouth positions. She started off with only smiling frames (open and closed variants), though today, I've added frowning versions, as seen in the first picture. She also has a "o" mouth and a "drinking" mouth used when she sucks on straws (as shown in the picture to the right of this text).

At first glance, the "o" and "drinking" mouths look nearly identical, but a difference between them is that the drinking mouth is slightly to the right of where the "o" is, which is in the center of her face.

Also, shoes are being made for her feet, though they are not finished yet; They are the same color as her dress though they lack any detail, which is bad since that clashes with the detailed style of the other parts of her body.

Her feet without the shoes look like curved pipes,hilariously enough. This girl is hard to make due to how both sides of her body are mirrored; This is the case with her hair as well, when I had to carefully line up each side with the other to make sure it was aligned with the other side, Also, her eyes are obviously flipped, unlike a kirby I haven't shown you.

Friday, August 23, 2013

After my previous post, I decided to improve the supposed "little girl". Now, as I mentioned in my previous post, due to her height, she isn't the typical "child size" but rather closer to teenager, but I fear that any modification to her can send things further out of proportion, so her size will have to do.

However, although her height may not changable, that doesn't mean I can't make her look more young.

As shown by Kitty, a bow (or some other cute accessory) is sometimes found on top of a littler girl's head, so that got me thinking about
adding one.

The bow is pink to match her outfit (which, although not shown much of it, is pink with flowers), but with a bunch of unnecessary detail on it, like how CGI models in FMVs have unseeable detail that could only be seen by the modeller and animator.

There are little curvy lines on each end of the bow, with a complex design in the circle in the middle. The bottom of the bow is lower quality than the upper part, since it was originally not supposed to be seen, but, for some reason, I forgot that the bow was going to be oversized like Apple Bloom on Friendship is Magic (although not as huge; How can she wear that bow on her head?).

So, I bet you want to see her face, right? She was bald last time you saw her, but now she has hair and...questionably looks like Paula from Earthbound in some way if I'm not mistakened.

Her hair will get more detail, but for now, this is how she'll look. If you want the Anime Studio project file, just ask. You'll require Anime Studio 5 to open it, though! (I don't use Flash like other people do, but rather use Anime Studio Pro 5.)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

In my previous posts, you've probably seen a yellow kitty that wears a brown bow and a pink shirt with an obvious "K" on it and wondered where she was from and why she kept appearing. Well, first, I'll explain her, then the newcomer.

Kitty is from Cool Catz, a non-Anime Studio show in Africa if I remember correctly. It has 4 cats, one that's fat, one that is called "Alley Cat", one that appears to be smart/invents stuff, and one cute kitty named, obviously, Kitty.

She will appear in a movie which, due to legal crap, won't probably be able to have an online release and will be limited to my family. She will be the enemy that has two forms, normal and "nurse", where she fakes being a nurse just by wearing a cute hat and changing her clothes' color.

She also has a blue flower that was seen in the intro as pictured here. Her normal form is unchanged from its appearance in the Anime Studio recreation of Cool Catz' intro. Her nurse form, however, is changed; It adds the nurse hat on her head and changes her shirt's color to match the cute hat.

I will explain the other characters sometime because, due to the unlikely release of this movie, you won't know what happens and who the characters are.

Recently, I saw what the baby ponies in My Little Pony looked like. Knowing me, they're cute, as they're probably intended to be. Their eyes have a unique style when compared to the normal ponies in the show; They have beady eyes with one white reflection circle in the corner, plus eyelashes (one, awkwardly enough, for the guy, while the girl gets two).

After seeing those cute eyes, I decided I wanted to try making them myself and decided to use them for a character I plan to add to the movie, a little girl. The thing is, in her current form, she looks taller than a child, rendering the "little" part of her name not exactly accurate to what she actually is.

A difference you'll notice pretty much instantly is her eyelashes (which this is my first attempt at such); They tilt downwards here while in Friendship is Magic, they tilt upwards. Also, her eyes are not round, but rather more like Kai-lan's eyes, more tall than wide.

She will get hair, (I plan to make it blonde to contradict the usual brown=brown/blonde=blue thing the eyes do) legs, and due to my obsession with restaurant cups, you can expect her to have a cute-looking one of her own (which I'll show too)!

This will be similar to Adventure Time Art, where the actual art used on the show is shown to you, except this is development art and not final art. Let's hope this "little girl" lives up to her name, because you might not realize it, but Nick Jr.'s cute little girls (Dora and Kai-lan) must've taken a lot of time to design and create them, since I can't get the proportions of a little girl correct!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Today, I got the idea to give Kitty (a girl in my movie taken from Anime Studio's Cool Catz video made by Mikdog) a nurse's hat. The idea was so random, but I wanted to add it anyways, figuring it would be a good storyline twist.

I might as well explain it since the movie, due to copyright crap that SHOULD NOT EXIST and space issues that will prevent the release of the movie publicly:

At one point in the movie, I'm planning to have Kitty (the enemy, surprisingly) try to look more innocent than normal by quickly moving off-screen and reappearing wearing a cute nurse hat, complete with the Red Cross' emblem.

Now that I think about it, the Red Cross emblem/logo/whatever it is might be a reason for not releasing the movie too, but then again, I still plan on releasing the files themselves somehow, just because I'm sure other Anime Studio users probably want to see what it looks like.

Red Cross' controversal decision to say "NO! YOU CAN'T USE OUR EMBLEM-THING IN VIDEO GAMES/WHATEVER blah blah blah" has affected Doom (in BFG Edition, the Medikit has a pill on it), Wolfenstein 3D (the Medikit has a heart on it in the iOS port), and LittleBigPlanet 2/Karting (Nursie has a heart on her nurse hat rather than the Red Cross-thing, which is parodied in the picture to the right), typically replacing the Red Cross with a heart or something similar. I still believe that Red Cross should not have done this, as gamers have gotten used to their symbol-thing seen as the health. Forcing people to use other symbols (or colored crosses) is a bit overkill in some way, so this is my way of rebelling against Red Cross, I guess.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Ah, Blue's Clues... Who doesn't love it? It has a unique game-oriented method of learning, plus it includes a blue puppy named Blue. Blue, however, has a secret that only your little dancers will know about, until now.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Strangely, in this game, there are two kinds of tracks: the kind you create, and the built-in ones that take place underground, above a pond, in a backyard, etc.

The tracks you make using the track editor are actually real. They're 3D models, fully customizable and raceable, and at the end, you get fireworks.

On the other hand, the built-in courses are pre-recorded videos! This surprises me! You can just tell by looking at this picture! Notice how crystal-clear the Hot Wheels car is and how low-quality and blurry the "background" is. The reason is they're pre-recorded videos! Stored in PLZ files on the CD, you can see that some of them have obvious names. For example, the picture above is most likely pondhi.plz.

This picture is probably ugroundhi.plz.

The folder /setup/hot2000/data/game contains the aforementioned PLZ files. You can see each of the files (with pondhi.plz being the highest file size) in this picture. I hope one day someone makes an editor where I can import my own video and set where the jumps and stuff are. (I would love to have a video of the Hot Wheels cars racing around my room!)